I'm a recently retired hobby knife maker, running a stock reduction shop in my half of a two car garage. Your use of space, as well as level of technology is rather impressive!
Big improvement from a garage door to the door in a wall. The space is much better. Now keep designing and making your incredible knives! You might find folks willing to pay more for custom laser engraving on their knives. And maybe you can put a link to your website in the video?
The X7 is far beyond the 1100 in terms of accuracy, speed, power, rigidity etc. The Tormach control is easier for beginners though. I would recommend going for a very inexpensive Tormach (perhaps used, less than $15k tops) or go straight to the X7. I just don't think the 1100MX really makes sense since the X7 came online.
First off, thanks for your support! Your order is part of the current batch I'm machining and will ship as soon as possible. I am 2+ months out right now from the day of the purchase and am getting that lead time shorter and shorter with the new machine running and the shop getting in order.
I have the room to add about as many machines as I want to, but I only have a 200amp drop to my house and wonder if I have enough power to make a shop like this. The house is only 800sf and doesn't use much power, but a lot of these machines seem to need several 40+ amp lines...
I have a 200amp drop to my whole house as well and it is plenty for this setup. The Syil has a 50 amp breaker but it doesn't even remotely come close to using that. In fact I'm embarrassed to say this but the whole shop in this video (minus the heater) is running on one 60 amp breaker to the sub panel and I've never popped it.
@@tj.schwarz My house only uses about 60 to 80 amps at max, I was thinking of doing a 100amp to my shop. I assume that would be enough for something like this then?
It is a cool shop and a cool product, but I think it is hard to be profitable and to gain customers. Knives like this (not custommade) from Amazon and co costs about 20 to 50$.
